The Life-saving F/16 Rule for Landscape Photographers

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The Life-saving F/16 Rule for Landscape Photographers


photo: Lake Mystic by Tad Cholinski

For a lot of us, landscape photography is one of our favourite past-times. Being out with nature doing the hobby you love, really is something we enjoy.

It can get a little frustrating if we’re not producing the standard of shots that we would like to however.

Luckily, there’s a quick and easy rule that can save your daytime landscapes (or any other daytime shot for that matter), at least in terms of exposure and light.

It’s called the f/16 Rule and is sometimes known as the Sunny 16 Rule.

It’s basically a way of ensuring a reasonable shot under sunny conditions without recourse to a light meter.

The basic rule states to shoot at an aperture of f/16 with a shutter speed of 1/125 when shooting on ISO 100 film.

Or f/16 with a shutter speed of 1/ISO setting (or as close as your camera settings will allow)

For example, let’s say you were shooting on 400 ISO film.

The formula would be f/16 and 1/400 speed.

With ISO 800, it would be f/16 and 1/800 speed.



See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_16